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Orthographic processing is universal; it's what you do with it that's different

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Dennis Norris  and
Sachiko Kinoshita
Dennis Norris
Affiliation:
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 7EF, United Kingdom. dennis.norris@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/dennis.norris/
Sachiko Kinoshita
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. sachiko.kinoshita@mq.edu.au http://www.ccd.edu.au/people/profile.html?memberID=59
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Abstract

We agree with Frost that the variety of orthographies in the world's languages complicates the task of “cracking the orthographic code.” Frost suggests that orthographic processing must therefore differ between orthographies. We suggest that the same basic orthographic processes are applied to all languages. Where languages differ is in what the reader must do with the results of orthographic processing.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 296 - 297
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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Kinoshita, S., Norris, D. & Siegelman, N. (in press) Transposed-letter priming effect in Hebrew in the same–different task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.Google Scholar
Norris, D. & Kinoshita, S. (in press) Reading through a noisy channel: Why there's nothing special about the perception of orthography. Psychological Review.Google Scholar
Norris, D., Kinoshita, S. & van Casteren, M. (2010) A stimulus sampling theory of letter identity and order. Journal of Memory and Language 62:254–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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